blogrolling

I gotta stop reading other people's weblogs. Not only is it depressing as fuck, but it's getting kind of boring. Not to imply that I have anything more interesting to say, but I'm comfortable in the fact that I don't make anyone read endless posts about how my significant other is a such a jerk (I hope they call me soon) or the results of some stupid test that I've taken and how you gotta try this one 'cause its so much different from the last one. I visit these sites with disturbed fascination, the way you would watch one of those special ed kids eat their lunch in a high school cafeteria.

In reading these craptacular blogs, I've learned to accept the fact that the English language will continue to be decimated with retarded sayings or poor use of grammar. Maybe I do it too, but I swear to god if I read one more run-on sentence that is broken up by elipses or emotes I'm going to jump off a god damned building. But I digress.

I never let something go too easily, so I'm going to go back to a previous post to discuss further some aspects of the "blogosphere" (gag) or in less freakish terms the loosely built community of weblogs on the internet. After not even a month of having this site online, I've come to the realization that no one will read it if it is not publicized. So sue me - I guess I do give a shit who reads it after all, since I'm busting my ass to provide a bit of original written content as opposed to a bunch of links with half-assed comments. Anyway that's not my point. Back in the good old days when everyone made a shitty website at GeoCities, before it was purchased by Yahoo!, they had a really good banner exchange program. Basically you were able to create an animated gif, with a dimension and file size limit, that would be placed into a pool containing the banners of all GeoCities sites. It was a great way of using their mandatory ad banner program for the free sites. I'll even admit that it worked and I got a few new visitors that signed my guestbook. What glorious and self-validating experiences they were. Indeed, it was much simpler then.

Now we have "blogrolling", which is basically a form of mutual masturbation, but in the blogosphere it's just called "reciprocal links". It's especially nice if you're on the blogroll of a site with lots of traffic, because you're guaranteed a few hits. And let's not forget the uproar when someone un-links you. It's all pretty sad, and every single blog is guilty of it in some way or another. As I said before, if you expect recognition you'd better have something interesting to say on a consistent basis or otherwise there is no point in sucking up to the A-listers. Oh and also, it helps when your site design is not two shades away from the default install of your blogging tool.

By the way, when you visit my site start leaving some comments. This guy thinks it's important for the weblog medium, and I tend to agree. Otherwise, I kind of feel like I'm shouting into the dark vaccuum of space. Which is still entirely possible.